From: "Yugui (Yuki Sonoda)" <yugui@...>
Date: 2009-01-12T21:29:06+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21272] Re: Do I need a special build arg to get irb to accept utf characters on OSX

On 1/11/09 1:06 PM, Dave Thomas wrote:
> I can enter some accented characters (such as ��), but not other
> characters (such as ���, ��� and ���). Some of those other characters echo as
> ?, while others are ignored.

This is a bug of libedit. It does not support multibyte characters.
(http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/)

You must build Ruby with GNU readline if you want input multibyte
characters. [ruby-dev:36199].

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